If you run away from a thing just because you don't like it, you don't like what you find either.

I shall pray God to send charity into this hideous world, and sympathy for the weak, and love for the unhappy and unfortunate. I shall ask Him if it is indeed His will that a child should suffer and its soul be damned for a little blemish of the body.

The clock is the most sacred thing in a hospital.

If you want to keep alive in the jungle, you must live as the jungle does.

It's humiliating to be dependent, anyway, but it's still a poorer pass to have no one to depend on.

Why should I? I've done nothing to be ashamed of. I am not ashamed - I am only beaten

There is an inability to sustain the tragic mood, a phoenix quality of the mind. It may be helpful or harmful, it is just a part of the will to survive—yet, also, it has made it possible for us to engage in one weakening war after another. But it is a necessary part of our mechanism that we should be able to cry only for a time over even an ocean of spilt milk—the spectacular must soon become the commonplace if life is to be supportable.